Benji stood there, the red fog around him surged faster towards his horns that kept absorbing it greedily. Adam reshaped the hammers into swords and spears again.
["I'm ready, let's put an end to them!"] The killing intent leaked from his cold voice.
Benji nodded, holding the bloody long sword in his hand.
The gravitational power exploded from his body and right eye, stopping the gravitational fields in the air.
The Mutated Squirrel Monkeys had no time to be happy that they finally landed on the ground, Benji created 6 massives gravitation fields 10 meters down in the earth.
The monkeys tried everything to fight against the heavy pulling power but they didn't even manage to stand up under the pressure.
Benji walked towards them, lifting his bloody long sword above his head.
Adam stood outside of the gravitational fields, having a hard time controlling the swords and spears to kill off the monkeys under the heavy pressure. Different to Benji, he couldn't walk freely inside those fields.
What followed was a one sided massacre! Hundreds of monkey corpses lying down on the ground...
Benji's military clothes were stained with blood, he erased the gravitational fields.
'I should be exhausted after using so many strong gravitational fields but my body is brimming with power...' Thought Benji as he cleaned his long sword.
["Our horns are still absorbing the red fog, filling and improving our powers. Let's check out the crystals from these mutated monkey."]
Benji nodded, "This trip was worth the trouble."
They had trouble breaking the skulls of the monkeys, they only managed it after Adam used the big hammers to crack them.
Adam looked dazed at the opened skull...
"What?" Asked Benji who noticed Adam's strange expression.
["There is no crystals here..."]
"What?!" Benji stopped hammering on the skull of the monkey corpse in front of him.
He walked beside Adam and searched for a crystal...
"Nothing? How is this possible?"
Adam's gaze wandered towards the red crystal horn on the knee of the monkey corpse, ["Maybe..."] Muttered Adam as he stretched his hand out, grabbing the horn.
The red horn surprisingly separated itself from the corpse when Adam used a little force.
Benji stared at the horn inside Adam's hand, "I see, that's how it is!"
Adam observed the horn with interest, and threw it towards Benji who catched it.
The crystal horn wasn't long, it was curved like his own horns. It felt cold inside his hand and he didn't know what to do with it.
["What are you waiting for? Eat it!"] Laughed Adam.
Benji nodded and took a deep breath, the crystals were indestructible but turned into liquid after entering his mount. Benji expect that the same counts for these horns.
Benji put the tip on his tongue, sensing that it turned into a thick liquid.
He gulped it down, pushing more of the horn into his mouth.
'DELICIOUS!' Thought Benji.
His body reacted violently, wiping away the bliss on his face. A burning pain spread through his body and mind.
Both Benji and Adam shouted in pain.
Cain and the other puppets fell lifeless on the ground.
Benji rolled around the ground in pain, he didn't know what was going on but the pain made him almost faint.
Thick black veins began to pop out, with the two horns as their center. The thick black veins soon invaded his whole body. Benji and Adam kept rolling and howling in pain. Adam's painful mental howls echoed through Benji's mind.
His body and mind went through another transformation. This time it was by far the most painful and intense. The red fog inside the forest started to rush in his direction, his horns absorbed it faster and in greater amounts.
His eyes began to transform too, his left eye that was shining bright like miniature sun darkened. The orange color was slowly being tainted by a dark-red color. The same happened to his right eye, his black hole like pupil was slowly tainted by a dark-red color...
The extreme pain lasted for 1 hour, Benji and Adam felt like they were literally dying.
Benji felt incredible exhausted, his body seemed to scream for more, it was dried up like a mummy.
He was to weak to walk but his instincts screamed that he needed more to finish the transformation.
'MORE!!!'
[ON IT!]
His left eye shone weakly, the four puppets stood up, starting to harvest quickly more horns from the monkey corpses lying around.
They sprinted back towards Benji, shoving one horn after another inside his mouth.
The horns turned into thick red liquid that glided down his throat.
His body became like a bottomless hole, greedily absorbing the thick liquid.
The black veins across his body pulsated violently, absorbing the energy and using it to transform Benji.
The pain had stopped and Adam had recovered from the earlier torture.
Their mind wasn't going through such violent change like the body, Adam was looking forwards to the results, he urged the puppets to work faster.
One horn after another was shoved into Benji's mouth, his body began to recover.
It slowly began to grow and expand under the influence of the black veins.
Benji couldn't think straight anymore, 'MORE!'
'MORE!!'
"MORE!!!"
[Oh my god...] Thought Adam, now growing wary at Benji's behaviour.
The two black on his forehead started to grow a bit, curving upwards...
The transformation lasted another hour before finally calming down.
Benji sat up, staring dazed at his hands.
[Brother...are you...alright?] Asked Adam carefully with concern.
"Yes..." Answered Benji who kept staring at his hands.
His red crystal nails had the same black color, like his two horns.
Realization rained upon Benji, "I'm finally complete...the past transformation were only preparations for this..." Muttered Benji still dazed.
[...]
Benji stood up, looking around.
"The world is changing..."
[So do we...]
"So do we..." Agreed Benji.
[There are only 11 horns left, you consumed hundreds of them...] Lamented Adam.
"That's enough for the others, they will become complete after absorbing them. Strange, why did the animals become complete so fast?"
[What do you mean?]
"The transformed humans are still human, they aren't the finished product, only halfway through the transformation. Don't ask from where I know, I just know it."
[Hm interesting, and these horns allows them to become complete?]
"Precisely, it wouldn't be exaggerated to say that we became a new race!" Answered Benji.
Adam grew impatient, [Tell me what is the new power you got?]
Benji looked back at his hands, "I'm not sure, it's called Force Body and I would say it's a mix between the Force from Star Wars and Pain from Naruto." Explained Benji hazy.
[Why do you sound so bitter about it?] Asked Adam, not sure what to think.
"I liked my Gravity Body..." Admitted Benji with a serious face.
[Isn't the Force Body like an upgrade from the Gravity Body? Just like my Radiant Mindlord ability that is the evolution from the Mind Puppeteer...]
"... Oh that's true..." Laughed Benji a bit awkward.
"I need to train but I can already do some stuff like..."
Benji stretched out his hand, aiming it at one of the fire puppets.
The fire puppet shook suddenly, flying through the air at Benji without being able to resist even a bit.
He grabbed the fire puppet at its throat.
[Oh?]
Benji smiled, the Force flowing through his body surged.
The puppet was send flying again, this time harder and away from Benji. It flew over 200 meters across the forest, hitting trees on its way.
The fire puppet was totally under Benji's mercy.
[Telekinesis?] Asked Adam.
"Similar but different, Force comes from the body, telekinesis from the mind."
[Uh right, looks still like telekinesis to me tho.]
Benji simply shrugged.
[We completed the evolution but why don't I feel an obvious power up?] Wondered Adam as he sensed his power.
Adam's remark stunned Benji, he looked back at his hands.
"You are right, I feel changed but not much stronger..."
[We need time to figure it out...]
"Yes..."
The two didn't know what kind of great turmoil they caused inside the Pillar Space...